Covid-19: Fears of Mass Hunger, Increasing Child Deaths and Children Dropping Out of School Worldwide – Three Articles
The COVID-19 pandemic is devastating the world; but the human cost from the economic fallout could be worse than the virus itself.
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In Indian Cities, Home-Based Workers are Being Paid Rs 15 for a Day’s Work Since the Lockdown
These women, without a contract or claim to worker rights, comprise the lowest rung of India’s labour chain.
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How True Is Modi’s Claim That His Decisions Saved India From the Worst of COVID-19?
Prime Minister Modi uses only the visible – the hardware – to claim India is ‘better off because of right decisions at the right time’, even though the claim isn’t even true.
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Pandemic Worsens, Resistance Will Follow
World leaders like Trump and Johnson trying to get back to business as usual while the virus continues to spread are deliberately sacrificing public health.
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Essential—and Expendable—Mexican Labor
In the days of Covid-19, the US is effectively exporting Covid-19 deaths through considerable official pressure on Mexico to keep the maquiladoras running, despite high infection rates.
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Capitalism | COVID19 | Print Edition | USA | World Politics
Could the Duterte Regime be COVID-19’s Next Victim?
Like Trump in the U.S. and Bolsonaro in Brazil, the Philippine strongman’s utter failure to contain COVID-19 may kneecap his authoritarian ambitions.
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Capitalism | COVID19 | Print Edition | USA | World Politics
Trump’s Withdrawal From WHO: A Cover-Up for His Abject Failure on COVID-19
The WHO, with its warts and all, still stands for global cooperation and fostering public health policies, and is the only instrument we have for global cooperation. It is hated by the right-wing precisely for these reasons.
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Income Decline before the Pandemic
A real income decline for vast numbers of working people in India had begun well before the pandemic – yet the Modi government is making no attempt to put purchasing power in the hands of people.
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Protected Areas, Covid 19 and People’s Rights
As India went into a lockdown to prevent the spread of the Covid 19, we witnessed a different kind of opening-up of our Protected Areas.
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It’s the Economy, Stupid! Or Is it the Stupid Economy?
The pandemic, for all its tragedy, has offered the Left a moment. What we decide to do now is all-important.
